[mythtv-users] Trouble playing OTA HD content on WDTV devices

[Travis Tabbal]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 7:28 AM, Dennis Cartier <dennis.cartier at gmail.com>wrote:

> Before I set out to modify the script I decided to play one of the
> non-linked files directly just to see how well it played the OTA HD content.
> That is where the wheels fell off.It does not seem to play the files at
> all?? I would have thought that they are just mpeg2 files and should
> therefore play. Are they not? Does anyone have any experience getting these
> to play on a WDTV?
>


I don't have a WDTV, but I believe that the ATSC streams from an HDHR are
transport streams. It's possible that the WD device doesn't know how to deal
with those. Try doing a lossless transcode on one recording and see if that
helps. It should convert it into the more usual program stream format.
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